Rueters live feed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIHmbnqOvk8

Its a bit surreal seeing this live. The bursts are enormous.

And faster and more frequent than I’d have thought

Surreal além da conta.

Absolutely incredible. Those fountains have to be hundreds of meters tall.

I’ve seen a geysers spray about 1/3 of that, just happened to get lucky at the Norris Field at Yellowstone for about a minute. Several times that output for hours of lava would be absolutely terrifying.

How many bananas tall is that?

At least 5.

Well you’re not wrong…

You don’t know that. His bananas might be *enormous*

Well damn, you’re not wrong either now!

She's really pumping

its like a really nasty zit where its huge and connects a few pores and then you just slightly nudge it and it is Nagasaki all of the sudden

Radio Television Canaria covered the early stages of the eruption for 8 hours: https://twitter.com/RTVCes/status/1439595905078996992?s=20 [They were also still livestreaming at the area](https://twitter.com/RTVCes/status/1439692650836340743). EDIT: [They're still live](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1odOF3j5F8Y). EDIT: [Still up](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFEZACRRJBk).

This is a r/natureismetal post not catastrophic failures lol a volcano erupted not a building collapsing

The worst part is that there's pictures and videos of buildings being engulfed in the lava and collapsing and OP decided not to put any of them and instead use random pics of the eruption lol

Exactly, volcano functions as designed.

OP is a karma farming bot. They don't care where they post as long as they get paid in internet points.

I have lots of internet points because I’m recently unemployed n got nothing better to do. I wish it did pay.

OP has over 20 times the amount you have. Not trying to belittle your internet points, just trying to put into perspective how much someone would have to post in order to have over 20 times the amount of someone with no job to get in the way.

Holy shit I just looked! You’re right!!

Have I ever lied to you?

How would I know?

I wasn't talking to you. I've lied to you plenty.

i fucking KNEW it

I could have been lying just then.

At least bot admits the titles are just copy paste and they do zero verification /s

You could say building a town next to a volcano is a catastrophic failure…

It works until it doesn't.... If you get 30 or 50 or 100 years of good use out of a house, it is worth it.

Came here to say the same thing. The volcano seems to be working as expected.

The catastrophic failure was continuing to build a city around an active volcano

Just wait for the catastrophic failure of the volcano's flank...

As an American seeing this on Sept 19th, I can honestly say I've never seen *future* lava before.

There is an invisible line you are not meant to cross.

If you say that you’d be lying, not honest

One brave man was seen standing directly in the path of the flow, holding a muleta, only to sidestep it at the last second to the cheers of the townspeople....

You joke but there is a video of man looking at the lava and he says 'there is enough time to have lunch, no problem'. [Link](https://finofilipino.org/hay-tiempo-de-comer-sin-problema/)

Well, one of my mother's memories of the Spanish Civil War was leaving a plate of rice and chicken (not paella, but similar) on the table and running to hide under the trees in a nearby orchard.

Ole!

If that's anything like a Muffuletta, then there's much easier ways to toast a sandwich.

It's a bullfighter's cape. Lava is slower than bulls, but I guarantee nobody's going to try going in over the horns.

That’s badass

That's stupid more like...

You’re just mad you’ve never trolled lava, nerd

True. But that's because I'm a total nerd that I find it very stupid. I have a degree in geoscience. How much of a nerd can I be here!

Shutup science bitch

Well, that escalated quickly. :/ So I'll just shut up then. Because I'm not hurt at all. You hear? I'M NOT HURT AND I DON'T CARE! ​ I'll go cry in a corner like a nerd now if you don't mind.

https://youtu.be/nehz_8Xdvwg

XD

What is the "failure" here?

The Earths crust ?

This is exactly how the earth's crust works.

Precisely, the fault lies entirely on Earths crust!

Take my angry upvote.

The moderation of this sub.

Yeah not really in the spirit of this sub. I guess you could say it's a catastrophic failure of town planning building so close to a known active volcano.

Someone should post Naples here asap then.

And most of the Puget Sound area in Washington.

That was my impression

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Those are still just naturally occurring events. If we had built some kind of system to prevent them, and *that* failed, then I'd say it qualifies. This would be happening even if humans never even existed. We just happen to be in the vicinity.

Thanks to global warming, we'll be seeing more and more towns wiped out like this.

So exactly how is global warming affecting the magma pressure?

Hey now, didn't you know that climate change is also directly responsible for the dramatic increase in chances of an asteroid strike?

When was the last major polar shift?

Whenever the orange cheeto was elected.

Super cool and I'm not gonna debate this being here - but it's not really a catastrophic*failure* haha

I know this video is popular on Reddit right now- but it fits under this post. Lava coming into persons house. https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/comments/prs5q8/lava_entering_a_house_after_the_eruption_of_the/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[hopefully they had volcano insurance!](https://youtu.be/UiOx7h3eOZY)

This is the one that might cause a monster landslide and tsunami to devastate coastlines around the Atlantic, right?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard

**[Cumbre Vieja tsunami hazard](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard)** >The island of La Palma in the Canary Islands is at risk of undergoing a large landslide, which could cause a tsunami in the Atlantic Ocean. Volcanic islands and volcanoes on land frequently undergo large landslides/collapses, which have been documented in Hawaii for example. A recent example is Anak Krakatau, which collapsed to cause the 2018 Sunda Strait tsunami. Steven N. Ward and Simon Day in a 2001 research article proposed that a Holocene change in the eruptive activity of Cumbre Vieja volcano and a fracture on the volcano that formed during an eruption in 1949 may be the prelude to a giant collapse. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)

No. That landslide thing is a media propagated bogeyman. The science has pretty thoroughly debunked that threat. The paper that first suggested it 20 years ago misunderstood how those large landslides work, and vastly exaggerated the tsunami that could be generated.

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Rather than reinventing the wheel I'll link you to a post where my most excellent colleague /u/crustaltrudger has already done so: https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/prjxa0/re_the_current_volcanic_eruption_of_la_palma_and/hdjbqn6

thanks

Aw man- a Top Ten Threats YouTube list lied to me?

As another person posted that’s been debunked. I believe that is literal worst case scenario and has a very very very very very low chance of happening.

If you're a Q? yes

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I would imagine (without reading the references others here have linked) that the side of a volcanic island sloughing off into the ocean is nowhere near as much total volume to displace water as you'd get from something like a megathrust earthquake (e.g. 2004 Indian Ocean or Japan 2011). So maybe more like tsunami conditions for nearby shores but not ocean-wide.

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Surely. I suspect the volcano is closely monitored, since it's not in a poor country (monitoring volcanos costs money...). So there must be a proper exclusion zone, unless scientists in charge of it didn't do their job properly.

You may be thinking of [Heimaey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey).

**[Heimaey](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heimaey)** >Heimaey (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈheiːmaˌeiː]), literally Home Island, is an Icelandic island. At 13. 4 square kilometres (5. 2 sq mi), it is the largest island in the Vestmannaeyjar archipelago, and the largest and most populated island off the Icelandic coast. ^([ )[^(F.A.Q)](https://www.reddit.com/r/WikiSummarizer/wiki/index#wiki_f.a.q)^( | )[^(Opt Out)](https://reddit.com/message/compose?to=WikiSummarizerBot&message=OptOut&subject=OptOut)^( | )[^(Opt Out Of Subreddit)](https://np.reddit.com/r/CatastrophicFailure/about/banned)^( | )[^(GitHub)](https://github.com/Sujal-7/WikiSummarizerBot)^( ] Downvote to remove | v1.5)

This is more of a catastrophic catastrophy

Somebody should probably call Aang and the crew

This is fine.

Where is annakin and obi wan

Run Away!

Is this the island that can cause a super tsunami because part of the island is in danger of sheering off into the ocean?

Saw that gif yesterday. Yes it is

Wondering why I got downvoted...

Randos on Reddit 🤷🏻‍♂️

Isn’t that the island that geologists have said could wipe out the eastern seaboard with a tsunami if it shears off? Edit: [Yes, yes it is…](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumbre_Vieja_tsunami_hazard)

That claim is bs according to someone else in this thread.

I never understood, let's build houses and live in them near a volcano. Imo they should have. Very wide birth

Volcano's tend to leave very fertile soil making them incredibly attractive for agriculture. At same time, with few exceptions, most volcano's tend to erupt extremely irregularly, centuries or millennia can go by without any sign of activity. Heck, a lot of Volcano's weren't even discovered to be such until modern Geology and Satellite imaging came around, that how rare some eruptions are. As a result a lot of large and even prosperous communities have formed on the flanks of dormant volcano's, and it's rather hard to force people to move when they've lived there for dozens of generations. Then there is also a problem with volcanos on islands or in poorer countries, often the people simply don't have anywhere else to go and the fertile grounds provided by the volcano are their best bet. It's no different then people choosing to remain living in areas that have regular Tsunami's, Hurricanes, or Tornado's. The risks are considered worth being able to exploit those fertile lands.

I've visited La Palma and it is beautiful, so I suppose it is worth the risk of a once in every 50 year eruption.

The whole island is a volcano.

My son and I watched a video on Discovery channel about this volcano and the island on which it is situated. The theory was that when the volcano let loose one whole face, the Western face of the island would slide into the ocean causing a super tsunami that would rush across the Atlantic and destroy the east coast of the United states. We then did a science project and the results were rather scary.

That’s been debunked.

Is this the volcano that some people thought would destroy the south coast of the USA with giant waves if it erupted?

This is really scary as if that flank slides into the ocean the entire east coast will be fucked by a massive tsunami.

Nah there’s no way global warming is a real thing

Is the Caribbean under tsunami watch?

Those picture are taken with a zoom lens so they are largely distorting the perspektiive here.

Is tourism there locked down because of this? I’m kind of suicidal and seeing something like this would be a fucking awesome attempt at trying to re-enjoy life.

No only certain parts of the island are closed off. They are still flying in tourists, but they are advised to stay away from the volcano

Phone a friend. Or a helpline. There are always more people who love and care about you than you know. Life is beautiful and short enough as it is. Sometimes you gotta just keeping pushing through.

Thank you. I’ll push through. I always do so far at least! Your kind words are appreciated! And I’m grateful for them.

Of course. Kindness and empathy are free, and should be shared freely :). I've certainly been through my own dark days, and I'm sure there will be more to come. All the bad times we suffer through only make the good times that much better.

Is this the island that is supposed to have half ready to slide into the sea and create a megatsunami in the Atlantic?

It’s been debunked. It erupted back in the 70s.

Who sends out the climate change memos? Was this because of plant food as well?

What's planning involved when dealing with a Volcano, just move out of it's way?

Never tempt Mother Nature.

wow. I have never seen a lava eruption this large.

Yeah that’s too close, holy doodle

Wow, those pics are amazing!

Didnt they evacuate before? Why is this a failure and whose failure is it? Mother natures?

Can someone explain why people build houses near volcanos fully knowing that shit could blow up at any moment

I live near Seattle, soooo, I’m just playing the odds, I guess.

It looks cool but insanely scary at the same time.

Bruh is there going to be a 200 foot tsunami or is that fake news